Written by Jacklyn Roussin & Wendy Thompson Cat’s Journey with ALASC: Cat first joined ALASC as a Social Media Assistant in Spring 2023. Her main goal was to improve the Chapter’s Goodreads account. In an attempt to achieve this goal, Cat made a new Goodreads group and worked to boost engagement, but despite her efforts, it didn’t gain the…
Andrea, it must be nice to work in a library- it’s so nice and quiet, you probably get a lot of reading done! …. uhm... Working at a library can be very wonderful, just not in the way you’d expect. It’s a customer service job, so you are in the position of helping people enjoy their time at the library-…
This year in Orlando was my first experience with the ALA Annual conference and as I reflect upon it, I came away proud to be pursuing the library profession. 
What made me proud was the intentional attention to increasing diversity, and all the efforts of inclusion. There was a blood drive and a vigil in response to the Pulse nightclub…
ALA Conference 2016 Orlando The meeting point It’s a big conference. With nearly 60,000 members, the American Library Association is the biggest collective of librarians and information professionals in the world, so naturally its gatherings get big. Many thousands of members attend the annual conference. You can spend almost a week there and never spot the classmate or colleague you…
SJSU SLIS ALASC and SLISConnect hosted a tour of the Seattle Public Library Central Branch this January. The event held during the ALA Midwinter Conference. The event began with a coffee hour at Seattle's Best Coffee. Â The library tour was led by SLIS alumni Sarah Scott. (Click thumbnails to enlarge)